Editor's blog: Any time you relaunch a site, things don't go perfectly. Then what?

It’s been nine months since the massive overhaul of Canada.com, and the changes just keep on coming.

Everything we develop on the site is focused on improving the user experience when you come to Canada.com, and that’s why I’m so delighted with the changes that have just gone live.

From the time of our relaunch, we had been experimenting with a different story pathing plan – taking you from the homepage to a discussion page filled with content on that subject, to a story page. It was risky. We’ve finally decided the risk didn’t pay off. Starting now, we’ve gone back to the normal route of homepage to story page. It probably shouldn’t have taken us this long to make that move.

Something brand new for us, and that we’ve only seen in one other place on the Internet, is we’ll now offer you even better content at the bottom of our stories. If the story is part of a broader discussion, you’ll see professionally-curated stories that complement and enrich the experience. If the story isn’t part of a discussion, you’ll see our homepage at the bottom of the story page.

This move is especially important for Canada.com because so many of you find us through search and social media, the vast majority of you don’t even see our homepage. And it is, of course, a spectacular selection of Canada’s great and shareable stories.

When we relaunched, we came out with a responsive site – optimized for your smartphone, your tablet and your desktop – a huge step forward for us. We have now redesigned our navigation, how our site renders on mobile and tablet, moved the ads out of the centre story area and to the right rail, moved comments below stories and out of the right rail, added category pages, cleaned up some of our design, and overhauled our footer at the bottom of the page.

On the social media side, we’ve improved our experience on Twitter, freshened up our Facebook page, boosted our Google+ efforts and are also now available on Google Currents on your mobile devices.

We want you to read us and share what you like with your friends. That’s when we know we’ve earned your time. It’s a big ask in your busy day, but we hope to earn a few minutes of your time every day with the content we’re producing.

Thanks for staying with us as we work to get Canada.com the way we think it will work best for you.

I'm the Senior Producer of video for the Postmedia Network, an avid hockey player and a rep hockey and baseball coach. My career has taken me from general assignment reporting to Toronto City Hall to ... read moreEditor of the Toronto Sun, and managing national commentary for Sun Media. I like to disappear in the mountains in Kananaskis in the winter. Follow me @robeditsView author's profile